Name: Performance: First Sound, Last Sound
Start: 2025-08-16T01:00:00+12:00
End: 2025-08-16T01:20:00+12:00
Location: 42 Queen Street, New Plymouth, New Zealand 4310

Witness First Sound, Last Sound, by Mel O'Callaghan, a profound sensory performance that calls your body into deep resonance with the living frequency of the Earth. As performers activate towering tuning forks tuned to the ‘god note’—256 hertz—you’ll be immersed in a symphony of sympathetic vibration that echoes within your own breath and heartbeat.
This is sound not just heard, but felt—cellular, primal, and ancient. Join us and become part of the transmission.
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Mel O’Callaghan, First Sound, Last Sound, 2022. performance, solid steel tuning forks, wooden resonance chamber, wooden, bronze and leather mallet. duration 20 minutes. Installation view, Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada, 2023. Courtesy of the artist, Cassandra Bird Gallery, Sydney and Galerie Allen, Paris. Image: Elyse Bouvier.